diff --git a/core/views/logbooks.py b/core/views/logbooks.py
index 1ef7838..512c77c 100644
--- a/core/views/logbooks.py
+++ b/core/views/logbooks.py
@@ -24,18 +24,6 @@ from troggle.parsers.people import GetPersonExpeditionNameLookup
 
 import troggle.settings as settings
 
-# Django uses Context, not RequestContext when you call render
-# to_response. We always want to use RequestContext, so that
-# django adds the context from settings.TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS.
-# This way we automatically get necessary settings variables passed
-# to each template. So we use a custom method, render_response
-# instead of render_to_response. Hopefully future Django releases
-# will make this unnecessary.
-
-# from troggle.alwaysUseRequestContext import render_response
-
-# Deprecated in 1.11.29
-# @django.db.models.permalink #this allows the nice get_absolute_url syntax we are using
 
 def getNotablePersons():
     notablepersons = []
@@ -82,14 +70,10 @@ def expedition(request, expeditionname):
         LoadLogbookForExpedition(this_expedition)
     return render(request,'expedition.html', {'expedition': this_expedition, 'expeditions':expeditions, 'personexpeditiondays':personexpeditiondays, 'settings':settings, 'dateditems': dateditems })
 
+
 def get_absolute_url(self):
     return ('expedition', (expedition.year))
 
-# replaced by statistics page
-# class ExpeditionListView(ListView): # django thus expects a template called "expedition_list.html" 
-# # from the name of the object not the name of the class.
-    # model = Expedition
-
 
 class Expeditions_tsvListView(ListView): 
     """This uses the Django built-in shortcut mechanism 
@@ -176,90 +160,6 @@ def logbookSearch(request, extra):
 
     return render(request,'logbooksearch.html',
                           { 'query_string': query_string, 'found_entries': found_entries, })
-                          #context_instance=RequestContext(request))
-
-def personForm(request,pk):
-    person=Person.objects.get(pk=pk)
-    form=PersonForm(instance=person)
-    return render(request,'personform.html', {'form':form,})
-
-# tried to delete all this, and the reference in urls.py, but got impenetrable django error message
-# @login_required_if_public
-# def newLogbookEntry(request, expeditionyear, pdate = None, pslug = None):
-    # expedition = Expedition.objects.get(year=expeditionyear)
-    # PersonTripFormSet, TripForm = getTripForm(expedition)
-    # if pslug and pdate:
-        # previousdate = datetime.date(*[int(x) for x in pdate.split("-")])
-        # previouslbe = LogbookEntry.objects.get(slug = pslug, date = previousdate, expedition = expedition)
-        # assert previouslbe.filename
-    # if request.method == 'POST': # If the form has been submitted...
-        # tripForm = TripForm(request.POST) # A form bound to the POST data
-        # personTripFormSet = PersonTripFormSet(request.POST)
-        # if tripForm.is_valid() and personTripFormSet.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass
-            # dateStr = tripForm.cleaned_data["date"].strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
-            # directory = os.path.join(settings.EXPOWEB, 
-                                    # "years", 
-                                    # expedition.year, 
-                                    # "autologbook")
-            # filename = os.path.join(directory, 
-                                    # dateStr + "." + slugify(tripForm.cleaned_data["title"])[:50] + ".html")
-            # if not os.path.isdir(directory):
-                # os.mkdir(directory)
-            # if pslug and pdate:
-                # delLogbookEntry(previouslbe)
-            # f = open(filename, "w")
-            # template = loader.get_template('dataformat/logbookentry.html')
-            # context = Context({'trip': tripForm.cleaned_data, 
-                               # 'persons': personTripFormSet.cleaned_data,
-                               # 'date': dateStr,
-                               # 'expeditionyear': expeditionyear})
-            # f.write(template.render(context))
-            # f.close()
-            # print((logbookparsers.parseAutoLogBookEntry(filename)))
-            # return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('expedition', args=[expedition.year])) # Redirect after POST
-    # else:
-        # if pslug and pdate:
-            # if previouslbe.cave:
-                # tripForm = TripForm(initial={"date": previousdate,
-                                             # "title": previouslbe.title,
-                                             # "cave": previouslbe.cave.reference(),
-                                             # "location": None,
-                                             # "caveOrLocation": "cave",
-                                             # "html": previouslbe.text})
-            # else:
-                # tripForm = TripForm(initial={"date": previousdate,
-                                             # "title": previouslbe.title,
-                                             # "cave": None,
-                                             # "location": previouslbe.place,
-                                             # "caveOrLocation": "location",
-                                             # "html": previouslbe.text})
-            # personTripFormSet = PersonTripFormSet(initial=[{"name": get_name(py.personexpedition), 
-                                                            # "TU": py.time_underground, 
-                                                            # "author": py.is_logbook_entry_author}
-                                                           # for py in previouslbe.persontrip_set.all()])
-        # else:        
-            # tripForm = TripForm() # An unbound form
-            # personTripFormSet = PersonTripFormSet()
-
-    # return render(request, 'newlogbookentry.html', {
-        # 'tripForm': tripForm,
-        # 'personTripFormSet': personTripFormSet,
-
-    # })
-
-# @login_required_if_public
-# def deleteLogbookEntry(request, expeditionyear, date = None, slug = None):
-    # expedition = Expedition.objects.get(year=expeditionyear)
-    # previousdate = datetime.date(*[int(x) for x in date.split("-")])
-    # previouslbe = LogbookEntry.objects.get(slug = slug, date = previousdate, expedition = expedition)
-    # delLogbookEntry(previouslbe)
-    # return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('expedition', args=[expedition.year])) # Redirect after POST
-
-# def delLogbookEntry(lbe):
-    # for pt in lbe.persontrip_set.all():
-        # pt.delete()
-    # lbe.delete()
-    # os.remove(lbe.filename)
 
 def get_people(request, expeditionslug):
     exp = Expedition.objects.get(year = expeditionslug)
diff --git a/core/views/persons.py b/core/views/persons.py
deleted file mode 100644
index a38806a..0000000
--- a/core/views/persons.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,269 +0,0 @@
-import datetime
-import os.path
-import re
-
-import django.db.models
-from django.db.models import Min, Max
-from django.urls import reverse
-from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
-from django.shortcuts import render
-from django.template import Context, loader
-from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify
-from django.utils import timezone
-from django.views.generic.list import ListView
-
-import troggle.core.models as models
-import troggle.parsers.logbooks as logbookparsers
-from troggle.core.forms import getTripForm  # , get_name, PersonForm
-from troggle.core.models import Expedition, Person, PersonExpedition
-from troggle.core.models_caves import LogbookEntry, PersonTrip
-from troggle.core.models_survex import SurvexBlock
-from troggle.helper import login_required_if_public
-from troggle.parsers.logbooks import LoadLogbookForExpedition
-from troggle.parsers.people import GetPersonExpeditionNameLookup
-
-import troggle.settings as settings
-
-# Django uses Context, not RequestContext when you call render
-# to_response. We always want to use RequestContext, so that
-# django adds the context from settings.TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS.
-# This way we automatically get necessary settings variables passed
-# to each template. So we use a custom method, render_response
-# instead of render_to_response. Hopefully future Django releases
-# will make this unnecessary.
-
-# from troggle.alwaysUseRequestContext import render_response
-
-# Deprecated in 1.11.29
-# @django.db.models.permalink #this allows the nice get_absolute_url syntax we are using
-
-def getNotablePersons():
-    notablepersons = []
-    for person in Person.objects.all():
-            if person.bisnotable():
-                notablepersons.append(person)
-    return notablepersons
-
-
-def personindex(request):
-    persons = Person.objects.all()
-    # From what I can tell, "persons" seems to be the table rows, while "personss" is the table columns. - AC 16 Feb 09
-    personss = [ ]
-    ncols = 4
-    nc = int((len(persons) + ncols - 1) / ncols)
-    for i in range(ncols):
-        personss.append(persons[i * nc: (i + 1) * nc])
-    
-    notablepersons = []
-    for person in Person.objects.all():
-            if person.bisnotable():
-                notablepersons.append(person)
-
-    return render(request,'personindex.html', {'persons': persons, 'personss':personss, 'notablepersons':notablepersons})
-
-
-def expedition(request, expeditionname):
-    this_expedition = Expedition.objects.get(year=int(expeditionname))
-    expeditions = Expedition.objects.all()
-    personexpeditiondays = [ ]
-    dateditems = list(this_expedition.logbookentry_set.all()) + list(this_expedition.survexblock_set.all())
-    dates = sorted(set([item.date for item in dateditems]))
-    for personexpedition in this_expedition.personexpedition_set.all():
-        prow = [ ]
-        for date in dates:
-            pcell = { "persontrips": PersonTrip.objects.filter(personexpedition=personexpedition, 
-                                                                logbook_entry__date=date) }
-            pcell["survexblocks"] = set(SurvexBlock.objects.filter(survexpersonrole__personexpedition=personexpedition, 
-                                                                    date = date))
-            prow.append(pcell)
-        personexpeditiondays.append({"personexpedition":personexpedition, "personrow":prow})
-        
-    if "reload" in request.GET:
-        LoadLogbookForExpedition(this_expedition)
-    return render(request,'expedition.html', {'expedition': this_expedition, 'expeditions':expeditions, 'personexpeditiondays':personexpeditiondays, 'settings':settings, 'dateditems': dateditems })
-
-def get_absolute_url(self):
-    return ('expedition', (expedition.year))
-
-class ExpeditionListView(ListView): # django thus expects a template called "expedition_list.html" 
-# from the name of the object not the name of the class.
-    model = Expedition
-
-
-class Expeditions_tsvListView(ListView): 
-    """This uses the Django built-in shortcut mechanism 
-    It defaults to use a template with name <app-label>/<model-name>_list.html.
-    https://www.agiliq.com/blog/2017/12/when-and-how-use-django-listview/
-    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Django/Generic_views
-    Either a queryset variable  or set_queryset() function is used, but not needed
-    if you want all the obejcts of a particaulr type in which case just set model = <object>
-    """
-    template_name = 'core/expeditions_tsv_list.html' # if not present then uses core/expedition_list.html 
-    #queryset = Expedition.objects.all()
-    #context_object_name = 'expedition'
-    model = Expedition # equivalent to .objects.all() for a queryset
-
-class Expeditions_jsonListView(ListView): 
-    template_name = 'core/expeditions_json_list.html' 
-    model = Expedition 
-
-
-def person(request, first_name='', last_name='', ):
-    this_person = Person.objects.get(first_name = first_name, last_name = last_name)
-    
-    # This is for removing the reference to the user's profile, in case they set it to the wrong person
-    if request.method == 'GET':
-        if request.GET.get('clear_profile')=='True':
-            this_person.user=None
-            this_person.save()
-            return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('profiles_select_profile'))
-    
-    return render(request,'person.html', {'person': this_person, })
-
-
-def GetPersonChronology(personexpedition):
-    '''Horrible bug here whern there is more than one survex block per day, it duplicates the entry but gets it wrong
-    Fortunately this is just the display on this page which is wroing, no bad calculations get into the database.
-    '''
-    res = { }
-    for persontrip in personexpedition.persontrip_set.all():
-        a = res.setdefault(persontrip.logbook_entry.date, { })
-        a.setdefault("persontrips", [ ]).append(persontrip)
-
-    for personrole in personexpedition.survexpersonrole_set.all():
-        a = res.setdefault(personrole.survexblock.date, { })
-        a.setdefault("personroles", [ ]).append(personrole.survexblock)
-    
-    # build up the tables
-    rdates = sorted(list(res.keys()))
-
-    res2 = [ ]
-    for rdate in rdates:
-        persontrips   = res[rdate].get("persontrips", [])
-        personroles   = res[rdate].get("personroles", [])
-        for n in range(max(len(persontrips), len(personroles) )):
-            res2.append(((n == 0 and rdate or "--"), (n < len(persontrips) and persontrips[n]), (n < len(personroles) and personroles[n]) ))
-            
-    return res2
-
-
-def personexpedition(request, first_name='',  last_name='', year=''):
-    person = Person.objects.get(first_name = first_name, last_name = last_name)
-    this_expedition = Expedition.objects.get(year=year)
-    personexpedition = person.personexpedition_set.get(expedition=this_expedition)
-    personchronology = GetPersonChronology(personexpedition)
-    return render(request,'personexpedition.html', {'personexpedition': personexpedition, 'personchronology':personchronology})
-
-
-def logbookentry(request, date, slug):
-    this_logbookentry = LogbookEntry.objects.filter(date=date, slug=slug)
-
-    if len(this_logbookentry)>1:
-        return render(request, 'object_list.html',{'object_list':this_logbookentry})
-    else:
-        this_logbookentry=this_logbookentry[0]
-        return render(request, 'logbookentry.html', {'logbookentry': this_logbookentry})
-
-
-def logbookSearch(request, extra):
-    query_string = ''
-    found_entries = None
-    if ('q' in request.GET) and request.GET['q'].strip():
-        query_string = request.GET['q']
-    entry_query = search.get_query(query_string, ['text','title',])
-    found_entries = LogbookEntry.objects.filter(entry_query)
-
-    return render(request,'logbooksearch.html',
-                          { 'query_string': query_string, 'found_entries': found_entries, })
-                          #context_instance=RequestContext(request))
-
-def personForm(request,pk):
-    person=Person.objects.get(pk=pk)
-    form=PersonForm(instance=person)
-    return render(request,'personform.html', {'form':form,})
-
-# tried to delete all this, and the reference in urls.py, but got impenetrable django error message
-# @login_required_if_public
-# def newLogbookEntry(request, expeditionyear, pdate = None, pslug = None):
-    # expedition = Expedition.objects.get(year=expeditionyear)
-    # PersonTripFormSet, TripForm = getTripForm(expedition)
-    # if pslug and pdate:
-        # previousdate = datetime.date(*[int(x) for x in pdate.split("-")])
-        # previouslbe = LogbookEntry.objects.get(slug = pslug, date = previousdate, expedition = expedition)
-        # assert previouslbe.filename
-    # if request.method == 'POST': # If the form has been submitted...
-        # tripForm = TripForm(request.POST) # A form bound to the POST data
-        # personTripFormSet = PersonTripFormSet(request.POST)
-        # if tripForm.is_valid() and personTripFormSet.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass
-            # dateStr = tripForm.cleaned_data["date"].strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
-            # directory = os.path.join(settings.EXPOWEB, 
-                                    # "years", 
-                                    # expedition.year, 
-                                    # "autologbook")
-            # filename = os.path.join(directory, 
-                                    # dateStr + "." + slugify(tripForm.cleaned_data["title"])[:50] + ".html")
-            # if not os.path.isdir(directory):
-                # os.mkdir(directory)
-            # if pslug and pdate:
-                # delLogbookEntry(previouslbe)
-            # f = open(filename, "w")
-            # template = loader.get_template('dataformat/logbookentry.html')
-            # context = Context({'trip': tripForm.cleaned_data, 
-                               # 'persons': personTripFormSet.cleaned_data,
-                               # 'date': dateStr,
-                               # 'expeditionyear': expeditionyear})
-            # f.write(template.render(context))
-            # f.close()
-            # print((logbookparsers.parseAutoLogBookEntry(filename)))
-            # return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('expedition', args=[expedition.year])) # Redirect after POST
-    # else:
-        # if pslug and pdate:
-            # if previouslbe.cave:
-                # tripForm = TripForm(initial={"date": previousdate,
-                                             # "title": previouslbe.title,
-                                             # "cave": previouslbe.cave.reference(),
-                                             # "location": None,
-                                             # "caveOrLocation": "cave",
-                                             # "html": previouslbe.text})
-            # else:
-                # tripForm = TripForm(initial={"date": previousdate,
-                                             # "title": previouslbe.title,
-                                             # "cave": None,
-                                             # "location": previouslbe.place,
-                                             # "caveOrLocation": "location",
-                                             # "html": previouslbe.text})
-            # personTripFormSet = PersonTripFormSet(initial=[{"name": get_name(py.personexpedition), 
-                                                            # "TU": py.time_underground, 
-                                                            # "author": py.is_logbook_entry_author}
-                                                           # for py in previouslbe.persontrip_set.all()])
-        # else:        
-            # tripForm = TripForm() # An unbound form
-            # personTripFormSet = PersonTripFormSet()
-
-    # return render(request, 'newlogbookentry.html', {
-        # 'tripForm': tripForm,
-        # 'personTripFormSet': personTripFormSet,
-
-    # })
-
-# @login_required_if_public
-# def deleteLogbookEntry(request, expeditionyear, date = None, slug = None):
-    # expedition = Expedition.objects.get(year=expeditionyear)
-    # previousdate = datetime.date(*[int(x) for x in date.split("-")])
-    # previouslbe = LogbookEntry.objects.get(slug = slug, date = previousdate, expedition = expedition)
-    # delLogbookEntry(previouslbe)
-    # return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('expedition', args=[expedition.year])) # Redirect after POST
-
-# def delLogbookEntry(lbe):
-    # for pt in lbe.persontrip_set.all():
-        # pt.delete()
-    # lbe.delete()
-    # os.remove(lbe.filename)
-
-def get_people(request, expeditionslug):
-    exp = Expedition.objects.get(year = expeditionslug)
-    return render(request,'options.html', {"items": [(pe.slug, pe.name) for pe in exp.personexpedition_set.all()]})
-
-def get_logbook_entries(request, expeditionslug):
-    exp = Expedition.objects.get(year = expeditionslug)
-    return render(request,'options.html', {"items": [(le.slug, "%s - %s" % (le.date, le.title)) for le in exp.logbookentry_set.all()]})